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when I had made my first visit. Never once did the dogsexhibit any symptom of uneasiness, and even when we returnedto the chapel they frisked about as though they hadbeen rabbit hunting in a summer wood.The morning was quickening in the east when weemerged from the front. Dr. Van Helsing had taken the keyof the hall door from the bunch, and locked the door inorthodox fashion, putting the key into his pocket when hehad done.‘So far,’ he said, ‘our night has been eminently successful.No harm has come to us such as I feared might be andyet we have ascertained how many boxes are missing. Morethan all do I rejoice that this, our first, and perhaps our mostdifficult and dangerous, step has been accomplished withoutthe bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina ortroubling her waking or sleeping thoughts with sights andsounds and smells of horror which she might never forget.One lesson, too, we have learned, if it be allowable to arguea particulari, that the brute beasts which are to the Count’scommand are yet themselves not amenable to his spiritualpower, for look, these rats that would come to his call, justas from his castle top he summon the wolves to your goingand to that poor mother’s cry, though they come to him,they run pell-mell from the so little dogs of my friend Arthur.We have other matters before us, other dangers, otherfears, and that monster … He has not used his power overthe brute world for the only or the last time tonight. So be itthat he has gone elsewhere. Good! It has given us opportunityto cry ‘check’ in some ways in this chess game, which